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PASSIONATE TEACHERS
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Did you ever notice how much more you learn from passionate people? Whether it be a teacher, a parent, or a friend…when someone is passionate we tend to listen closer, buy in to what they are saying, and remember it later.
Yet, what is often missed is the importance of passion for your subject, the young people sitting in front of you, and the pressing issues in our world.
Research shows that teachers—not books, not technology, not buildings, and not even class size—are the single most powerful driver of student performance. That research is important for two reasons. First, it puts an enormous amount of responsibility and pressure on teachers to drive student success. Second, it should be our guiding priority when we think about how to improve our schools. Better teachers, better students.
What does a passionate teacher do that others don't?
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Tony Bryant has been involved in education for over 46 years and principal of Silverton Primary School, a Microsoft Worldwide Mentor School, for the past 20 years. Working in a low-socio economic, highly multi-cultural area of Melbourne, Australia he has led a school that has been recognised worldwide as an innovative and progressive school.
